San Francisco poet Sarah Menefee, originally from Reno, Nevada, is a homeless rights activist and founding member of such groups as Homes Not Jails, the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and ‘First they came for the homeless.’ She sits on the ‘homeless desk‘ of the national paper the People’s Tribune. She is also a painter and photographer.
Her previous collections of poetry include I’m Not Thousandfurs, The Blood About the Heart, Human Star, In Your Fish Helmet, CEMENT, and Holy Eel (Lithic Press, 2024); and various chapbooks, the most recent titled Winter Rose (Bodily Press) and Sighn (Two Way Mirror); as well as many books and chapbooks on her own limited imprint Fishy Afoot.
She has worked in hospitals, casinos, bars, day care centers, offices, and bookstores, and as an artist’s model; and has taught poetry in homeless shelters, half-way houses and at Occupy. Now retired, she is a fulltime gadfly and sitter in cafés.
